One of the most quoted lines about love for a reason, this gentle exchange says, in the simplest possible way, that the hardest part of loving someone isn’t loving them, it’s imagining life without them. It’s a reminder couples can hold onto on both the easy days and the harder ones that this fear of loss is really just love, seen from a different angle.
Whichever one you reach for, the real value isn’t in reciting it word for word, it’s in knowing that someone else, decades or centuries ago, felt exactly what you’re struggling to put into words right now and left you the language for it.